SR Banana Vans OO Gauge

2 designs in SR and BR liveries
Pack of three Southern Railway diagram D1478 insulated banana vans in pre-1936 white livery with red lettering. Wagon numbers 50641 50712 & 50720.

Detailed models of the distinctive Southern Railway design banana vans used for traffic from Southampton docks. Through the 1920s the Southern had hired banana vans from the LNER, so these vans were new in the 1930s by which time the insulation had proven capable of maintaining the constant temperature needed for transporting fruit, eliminating the need for extra ventilators.
Following the docking of a refrigerated banana ship several block trains of these banana vans would have been dispatched from Southampton to the major fruit markets across Britain. These banana trains were equipped with vacuum train brakes throughout, so ran at express goods speeds, up to 60mph.
£84.95

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(Product Ref 122765)
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Pack of three Southern Railway diagram D1478 insulated banana vans in pre-1936 white livery with red lettering. Wagon numbers 50575 50583 & 50591.

Detailed models of the distinctive Southern Railway design banana vans used for traffic from Southampton docks. Through the 1920s the Southern had hired banana vans from the LNER, so these vans were new in the 1930s by which time the insulation had proven capable of maintaining the constant temperature needed for transporting fruit, eliminating the need for extra ventilators.
Following the docking of a refrigerated banana ship several block trains of these banana vans would have been dispatched from Southampton to the major fruit markets across Britain. These banana trains were equipped with vacuum train brakes throughout, so ran at express goods speeds, up to 60mph.
£84.95

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(Product Ref 122766)
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Pack of three Southern Railway diagram D1478 insulated banana vans in post-1936 white livery with small red lettering. Wagon numbers 50746 50650 & 50597.

Detailed models of the distinctive Southern Railway design banana vans used for traffic from Southampton docks. Through the 1920s the Southern had hired banana vans from the LNER, so these vans were new in the 1930s by which time the insulation had proven capable of maintaining the constant temperature needed for transporting fruit, eliminating the need for extra ventilators.
Following the docking of a refrigerated banana ship several block trains of these banana vans would have been dispatched from Southampton to the major fruit markets across Britain. These banana trains were equipped with vacuum train brakes throughout, so ran at express goods speeds, up to 60mph.
£84.95

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(Product Ref 122767)
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Pack of three Southern Railway diagram D1478 insulated banana vans in British Railways bauxite livery. Wagon numbers S50704, S50629 & S50651.

Detailed models of the distinctive Southern Railway design banana vans used for traffic from Southampton docks. Through the 1920s the Southern had hired banana vans from the LNER, so these vans were new in the 1930s, by which time the insulation alone had proven capable of maintaining the constant temperature needed for transporting fruit, so did not have the extra ventilators and steam heating of older designs.
Following the docking of a refrigerated banana ship several block trains of these banana vans would have been dispatched from Southampton to the major fruit markets across Britain. These banana trains were equipped with vacuum train brakes throughout, so ran at express goods speeds, up to 60mph.
£84.95

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(Product Ref 122768)
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Pack of three Southern Railway diagram D1478 insulated banana vans in 1960s British Railways bauxite livery. Wagon numbers S50774, S50649 & S50691.

Detailed models of the distinctive Southern Railway design banana vans used for traffic from Southampton docks. Through the 1920s the Southern had hired banana vans from the LNER, so these vans were new in the 1930s, by which time the insulation alone had proven capable of maintaining the constant temperature needed for transporting fruit, so did not have the extra ventilators and steam heating of older designs.
Following the docking of a refrigerated banana ship several block trains of these banana vans would have been dispatched from Southampton to the major fruit markets across Britain. These banana trains were equipped with vacuum train brakes throughout, so ran at express goods speeds, up to 60mph.
£84.95

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(Product Ref 122769)
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Pack of three Southern Railway diagram D1479 insulated banana vans in pre-1936 white livery with red lettering. Wagon numbers 50775 50788 & 50791.

Detailed models of the second design of insulated banana vans built by the Southern Railway for banana traffic from Southampton docks. This design was based on the Southerns' standard box van with the distinctive Lynes triple-arc roof, but equipped with added insulation and tightly sealing plug doors needed to maintain the correct temperature for transporting fruit to market.
Following the docking of a refrigerated banana ship several block trains of these banana vans would have been dispatched from Southampton to the major fruit markets across Britain. These banana trains were equipped with vacuum train brakes throughout, so ran at express goods speeds, up to 60mph.
£84.95

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(Product Ref 122770)
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Pack of three Southern Railway diagram D1479 insulated banana vans in pre-1936 white livery with red lettering. Wagon numbers 50886 50899 & 50865.

Detailed models of the second design of insulated banana vans built by the Southern Railway for banana traffic from Southampton docks. This design was based on the Southerns' standard box van with the distinctive Lynes triple-arc roof, but equipped with added insulation and tightly sealing plug doors needed to maintain the correct temperature for transporting fruit to market.
Following the docking of a refrigerated banana ship several block trains of these banana vans would have been dispatched from Southampton to the major fruit markets across Britain. These banana trains were equipped with vacuum train brakes throughout, so ran at express goods speeds, up to 60mph.
£84.95

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(Product Ref 122771)
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Mixed pack of three Southern Railway insulated banana vans from diagrams D1478 and D1479 in early British Railways service painted in SR post-WW2  red oxide livery BR lettering. Wagon numbers S50610 (D1478), S50619 & S50870 (both D1479).

Detailed models of the second design of insulated banana vans built by the Southern Railway for banana traffic from Southampton docks. This pack contains one of the first design diagram D1478 and two of the later D1479 wagons finished in SR red oxide livery with early British Railways lettering, as running after nationalisation.
Following the docking of a refrigerated banana ship several block trains of these banana vans would have been dispatched from Southampton to the major fruit markets across Britain. These banana trains were equipped with vacuum train brakes throughout, so ran at express goods speeds, up to 60mph.
£84.95

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(Product Ref 122772)
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Pack of three Southern Railway diagram D1479 insulated banana vans in British Railways bauxite livery with Geest Bananas posters. Wagon numbers S50869, S50840 & S50854.

Detailed models of the second design of insulated banana vans built by the Southern Railway for banana traffic from Southampton docks. This design was based on the Southerns' standard box van with the distinctive Lynes triple-arc roof, but equipped with added insulation and tightly sealing plug doors needed to maintain the correct temperature for transporting fruit to market.
Following the docking of a refrigerated banana ship several block trains of these banana vans would have been dispatched from Southampton to the major fruit markets across Britain. These banana trains were equipped with vacuum train brakes throughout, so ran at express goods speeds, up to 60mph.
£84.95

Must be ordered - delivery as soon as possible.
(Product Ref 122773)
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Pack of three Southern Railway diagram D1479 insulated banana vans in British Railways bauxite livery with Geest and Fyffes Bananas posters. Wagon numbers S50804, S50819 & S50810.

Detailed models of the second design of insulated banana vans built by the Southern Railway for banana traffic from Southampton docks. This design was based on the Southerns' standard box van with the distinctive Lynes triple-arc roof, but equipped with added insulation and tightly sealing plug doors needed to maintain the correct temperature for transporting fruit to market.
Following the docking of a refrigerated banana ship several block trains of these banana vans would have been dispatched from Southampton to the major fruit markets across Britain. These banana trains were equipped with vacuum train brakes throughout, so ran at express goods speeds, up to 60mph.
£84.95

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(Product Ref 122774)
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Pack of three Southern Railway diagram D1479 insulated banana vans as running in the 1960s as vacuum train brake 'fitted head' wagons, coded TADPOLE. Wagon numbers TDS50812, TDS50885 & TDS50846.

Detailed models of the second design of insulated banana vans built by the Southern Railway for banana traffic from Southampton docks. This design was based on the Southerns' standard box van with the distinctive Lynes triple-arc roof.
Following the introduction of diesel locomotives it was found that the new diesels lacked the brake force capabilities of steam goods engines when handling trains not equipped with vacuum train brakes, such as coal trains formed of 'unfitted' 16-ton mineral wagons. A significant number of redundant vacuum braked wagons were allocated for use as a 'fitted head', extra wagons with vacuum train brakes which could augment the locomotives' braking capability.
£84.95

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(Product Ref 122775)
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